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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Mon May 18, 2015, 06:23 AM May 2015

Marco Rubio: "20th century was great"

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/18/marco_rubios_insane_mad_men_tweet_his_takeaway_was_that_the_20th_century_was_awesome/

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/600116092946685952

Unless you count:
WWI
violent rise of Communism
Recession
bloody wars and famines all over Eastern Europe
WWII
Cold War and proxy wars all over the planet
the US toppling democracies and replacing them with dictatorships, e.g. in Iran
segregation
US-soldiers killing US-students with impunity during the Kent State Massacre
rise of islamic extremism
post-Cold War-chaos leading to pillaging of the soviet economies and creating the oligarch-class in Eastern Europe
civil-war and genocide in Yugoslavia

And I'm sure, there's more.

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Marco Rubio: "20th century was great" (Original Post) DetlefK May 2015 OP

The Great Depression was a highlight! Human101948 May 2015 #1

Well yes, all that stuff maybe true Turbineguy May 2015 #2

You have to learn how to let go. DetlefK May 2015 #4

Yes, indeed. Turbineguy May 2015 #6

Stalin, Hitler, Mao. FLPanhandle May 2015 #3

95% tax rates on the rich, creating a strong middle class and infrastructure. onehandle May 2015 #5

Florida man out for revenge smashes wrong car struggle4progress May 2015 #7

Human101948

(3,457 posts)

1. The Great Depression was a highlight!

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2015, 06:31 AM

May 2015

And the Holocaust was a hoot!

Turbineguy

(37,331 posts)

2. Well yes, all that stuff maybe true

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2015, 06:34 AM

May 2015

but didn't 8 years of Reagan offset all that?

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

4. You have to learn how to let go.

Reply to Turbineguy (Reply #2)

Mon May 18, 2015, 06:49 AM

May 2015

Sure, you had some great 8 years, but you guys broke up 26 years ago. Aaand he's dead. For 11 years now. You should go out and meet new republican presidents.
What about that nice George "who-cares" Bush?
Or George W. "He-who-shall-not-be-named" Bush?